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Originally Posted by ChiSoxRox
I checked the Cincinnati MSA to see when it last went Democratic.
The metro is deep red all the way back to 1964, when Johnson swept all but one rural county. Indeed, Obama is the first Democrat to win Hamilton County itself since LBJ. Even in the 1990s and 1976 blue waves, metro Cincinnati was the reddest part of Ohio. In 1976 Hamilton County was one of the ten largest numerical margins for Ford of any county in the country!
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Cincinnati/Hamilton County has long been a Republican stronghold. Might have something to do with the Taft family and some companies being headquartered in the city (specifically Proctor & Gamble and Kroger, the corporate workforce of both attracting suburban, white collar, college-educated voters), but the city itself has always been somewhat blue.
It's suburbs, especially in the Ohio counties of Warren, Butler and Clermont, have and will probably always be a deep shade of red.
What'll be interesting to watch is Kenton, Campbell and maybe even Boone counties in Kentucky. It doesn't help Ohio, but if I remember correctly, those three counties went blue for the 2019 Kentucky Gubernatorial Election?